Thursday, May 22, 2008

This was a posting in a group that I have at Facebook (Analytics, Data Mining, Predictive Modeling, Artificial Intelligence). As predicted on May 12, 2008, the next battleground between Google and Microsoft is going to be in the realm of business analytics. The science in this Google product is good, as is the science behind Microsoft Analysis Services too.

In my opinion Google is correct in assuming that the future business analytics is in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). I specifically addressed this topic on blog postings of March 10 and March 26